Bedi International school
Holiday Homework 2023 - 24
Class - VII
Subject - English
Instructions :
● Use A4 sheets to
● prepare the assignment and submit it in a milky file with a label mentioning your
name, class section and subject.
● Do you work neatly.
● This assignment carries 10 marks.
● It must be submitted to the concerned subject teacher after the summer vacation.
Ques 1. Write composition on any two topics of the following topics.
1. Value of time
2. Education is a gift that none can take away.
3. Laughter is the best medicine.
4. Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.
Ques 2. Write letter on any two of the following topics.
1. You are attending an NCC camp for the first time . Your mother is worried about you. Write a
letter assuring her that you are learning a lot in the camp and that you are enjoying it.
2. You are Yamini Gautam of 82 , Madhuban vihar, Jabalpur. Write a letter to the Editor of MP
times expressing your concern at the in sanitary conditions in your locality.
3. Write a letter to the librarian requesting him to issue a duplicate library card.
4. Write a letter to your friend who has recently had an accident asking her or him about his or
her health.
Ques 3. Learn spellings of these words to enrich your vocabulary and also write their
meanings from dictionary.
1. Guise
2. Eccentric
3. Traverse
4. Pallied
5. Frenzied
6. Wary
7. Brandish
8. Uncanny
9. Slaving
10. Reminiscing
11. Wanted
12. Hideous
13. Retreated
14. Miserly
15. Humbug
16. Cramped
17. Clenched
18. Sneered
19. Jabbing
20. Shudder
21. Interpretation
22. Penance
23. Depiction
24. Hollowed
25. Enormous
26. Intricate
27. Monolith
28. Sentinel
29. Tumbled
30. Clenched
31. Pell-mell
32. Menacingly
33. Pleaded
34. Cramped
35. Desperation
36. Unkempt
37. Sinister
38. Scanned
39. Weathered
40. Turbulent
Ques 4. Do as directed:
I Rewrite the paragraph by using correct punctuation marks.
shimla the capital city of himachal pradesh has already done it and goa has followed suit for a
city littered with tonnes of plastic bags of all hues and sizes the campaign to check their use has
not done a day too soon in delhi but then the campaign has not been taken by the
administration non government.
ii. Fill in the blanks with adjectives which may be opposite in meaning to those which are
printed in bold.
a. He may be wise in speech , but is undoubtedly —------- in his actions.
b. He looks gentle enough, but he can be —------at times.
c. I have refused to accept this job as it is a temporary one; I am out to see a—------ one.
d. He is rough in his exterior but —------ at heart.
e. While the people begged the Government to take a lenient view of the case , the
Government took —------- action against the accused.
iii. Fill the blanks with correct forms of the verbs given in the bracket.
A book fair was being —--- (hold) in the Town Hall. So one morning our teacher —--- (say ) that
we were going to visit it. We —--- ( cheer) loudly for it meant that there —----(will) be no lessons
for the day. We —--- (line) up outside the classroom. Then we —---- ( March) in pairs out of the
school.
iv Rearrange these words and phrases to make a meaningful sentence.
(a) one of / friends / a / best / good / our / is / book
(b) the same / and it / it is / change / will never / today that / it always was
(c) most patient / companions / cheerful of / it / and / is the
(d) turn its / in times / it does / of adversity / back upon / or distress / not / us
v. Make meaningful sentences with each abstract nouns given.
1. Love
2. Pleasure
3. Calm
4. Youth
5. Truth
Ques 5.
"Reading is dreaming with your eyes open!"
Read any two of the following story books and write it's book review in the format given
below:
1- Name of the book:
2- Author of the book:
3- The character I liked the most and why?
4- Three things I liked in the book the most:
1. Alice in Wonderland
2. The Jungle Book
3. A Little Princess
4. Cindrella
Note - PDF of these books will be shared in the group.
Ques 6.
Read the chapter " Henry : A Chameleon " and " Salim and Tansen" of your text book
and frame 10 MCQs with their answers.
